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Old 11-13-2010, 05:46 PM   #135
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Originally Posted by FF2 View Post
See this is where the law has proved very stupid. It has turned or attempted to turn ordinary people in class one felons (not in the legal sense - maybe misdemeanants). Whether photocopying, or scanning or breaking drm - ordinary folks are being forced to become common criminals to protect the rights they have purchased.

Oh, I just looked at two pbooks and neither contains language forbidding copying.
My current p-book has this rather standard paragraph on the copyright page:
"No part of this book may be reproduced in any form whatsoever, whether by graphic, visual, electronic, film, microfilm, tape recording, or any other means, without prior written permission of the author, except in the case of brief passages embodied in critical reviews and articles."

OK, one kind of non-standard clause there: requiring the author's permission rather than the publisher's.
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